Too Many Twenties Lyrics

Too Many Twenties lyrics

(B. Walkenhorst)
There's too many twenties, too many fives
Too many
numbers in front of our eyes
Too many statistics that nobody
reads
Numbers don't lie but numbers don't bleed
Who's counting when it
way past plenty
There's too many twenties
There's too much hush money
being passed in the joint
Too many bodies hidden behind the decimal
point
A number's got a name, a name's got a face
And a face should have a
future and a place that's safe
But the chances of that are between slim and
skinny
There's too many twenties
Every second sister's got a fighting
chance
Of getting hurt at home by a lover's show of hands
And every
fourth daughter's gonna cover up and cry
When she comes home from school
saying "Mama, Papa, why?"
What are you gonna tell them, just to smile and
look pretty and take it?  Huh?
All you fathers looking in your little
daughter's eyes
Know that your worst nightmare finds one out of
five
Don't worry about cancer, aids, or nothing else
Just worry about the
fact there's a man in the house
Till death do us part, man, it do part
plenty
There's too many twenties
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Tick
tock tick tock tick tock ten
Somewhere another woman just took it on the
chin
Tick tock tick talk is tough
Your sister just had her dignity
snuffed
Every second counts, minutes equal many
There's too many
twenties
Sound and information are reduced to bites
And the voice of
opposition to a stereotype
The numbers are numbing, they're hard to
believe
They're blurred by the blood on the balance sheet
Stack the
bodies in neat little piles of ten
And hit me
There's too many twenties